The use of adjunctive corticosteroids in the treatment of pericardial, pleural and meningeal tuberculosis: Do they improve outcome?

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 793-800

  Evans, D J ^a,b  

^a Hemel Hempstead General Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids; Meningitis; Pericarditis; Pleural effusion; Steroids; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; CORTICOSTEROID; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COMORBIDITY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGING; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REVIEW; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; TUBERCULOUS PERICARDITIS; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; PERICARDITIS, TUBERCULOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL; TUBERCULOSIS, PLEURAL;

EID: 43049139537     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2008.01.018     Document Type: Review

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